May 24, 2025
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    Theory

    Intersectionality, privilege theory and identity politics: A Marxist view

    Whenever working-class and oppressed people begin to engage in struggle against their conditions, as they have done on a massive scale in the last period, what accompanies this is a search for ideas. Fury at injustice leads people to seek to understa...

    Understanding China’s authoritarian state capitalism

    This is an edited version of a speech given by Peter Chan of chinaworker.info to the ISA's Virtual Marxist University in July 2020, which is now published for the first time. Marxists have continuously discussed and debated what kind of state the CC...

    Trans women are women

    Far right political forces that spread transphobia have grown in many countries in recent years. This article by our American comrades explains what is behind this development. Pitting women against trans people is not a new tactic from the right win...

    The economic onslaught of the counterrevolution and the unions

    Leon Trotsky, 30 March 1933 (The following short article by Leon Trotsky was written after the victory of fascism in Germany in 1933. It has been translated by chinaworker.info into Chinese for the first time.) Declaration of the delegates representi...

    No common “national interest” — For an independent working-class road

    Labour movement must oppose militarism and imperialism Andy Moxley, ISA International Political Committee (This article was first published on 13 March 2025) The surge of the right-wing internationally and the shift driven by the ruling class into an...

    United States: 5 right-wing lies about immigration

    Cody Turner, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States) (This article is by our sister organisation in the United States, Socialist Alternative, countering the racist migration policies of the Trump administration; it was first published on 15...

    Pride Month: How the movement against the Vietnam War electrified the fight for queer rights

    Stonewall itself had roots of its own, in the movement that developed against the Vietnam War, which not only helped to crystallize a gay political identity but set the stage for decades of queer organizing to come

    Sunflower movement transformed Taiwan’s political map

    Important lessons from the mass struggle against the Ma government of March-April 2014 Vincent Kolo Ten years ago, a mass movement erupted in Taiwan which shook the whole capitalist establishment and resulted in a permanent irreversible political s...

    Leon Trotsky: Some Ideas on the Period and the Tasks of the Left Opposition

    July 28, 1931 The revolutionary tide is now indisputable. The Communist parties are growing stronger in certain countries. The elementary flow of forces turns aside the questions of strategy and puts them in second or third place. The workers mo...

    Left politics: Sinn Féin, PBP and the question of a left government in Ireland

    A significant change in the political landscape in Ireland, coupled with Sinn Féin’s rise to become the largest party in the North, will be a defining feature of Irish politics in the next few years. The misguided tactical approach that flows fro...

    Latest News

    Trump’s trade war: US and China agree ceasefire

    ‘Liberation Day’ nightmare is scaled back for 90 days but what comes next? Editorial from Socialist magazine, published by ISA in China, Hong Kong an...

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